Description : A documentary on independent truckers. Source : 1 Tape of 1: 2 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Rights: Rights are owned by Ideas in Motion. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the digitized work online. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owner. In addition, the reproduction of some...
Topics: Truck drivers--United States, Optic Nerve, californialightandsound
Series Title : The Dilexi series Description : Commissioned work by Robert Frank for broadcast on KQED-TV, San Francisco. From Mugu Brainpan: Aired on KQED TV in 1969, the Dilexi Series represents a pioneering effort to present works created by artists specifically for broadcast. The 12-part weekly series was conceived and commissioned by the Dilexi Foundation, an off-shoot of the influential San Francisco art gallery founded by James Newman. Newman, who operated the Dilexi Gallery from 1958...
Topic: californialightandsound
Description : This edited Ektachrome home movie with titles documents a 1959 street fair, upper Grant Avenue, San Francisco--the center of Beat culture. The film includes shots of filmmaker Dion Vigne and his wife Loreon, artist and occultist Marjorie Cameron and her daughter Crystal, artist Wallace Berman and his wife Shirley, and Beat poet and surrealist Bob Kaufman. Source : 1 Reel of 1: Film: 16mm (original reversal) Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Rights :...
Topics: californialightandsound, home movie
Description : A behind the scenes look at the 1973 Miss California Pageant and the state of the feminist movement. By the early 1970s, pageants had become a target of feminists and the organizers and contestants found themselves facing protests and scrutiny from the media. Optic Nerve presents both sides neutrally, allowing the clueless pageant community to make the feminists' case for them.--Media Burn Source : 1 Tape of 1: 1 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film...
Topic: californialightandsound
Description : This film documents the two day anti-Vietnam War rally held in Sproul Plaza at the University of California. There are many scenes of students gathering, activities, carrying signs, collecting money, etc. Identified speakers include Robert Scheer, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Mario Savio, Norman Thomas, Dick Gregory, Norman Mailer. There are many unidentified speakers. The Committee performs a comedy skit (07:50). Barbara Dane sings and performs on acoustic guitar (13:06). Phil Ochs sings...
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Topics: californialightandsound, Callenbach, Ernest, Dane, Barbara, Ochs, Phil, Scheer, Robert, Spock,...
Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-356 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. This work is accessible for purposes of education and research. Transmission or reproduction of works protected by copyright...
Topic: californialightandsound
Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette
Description : Media collective Optic Nerve interviews San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk at Castro Camera, a camera shop operated by Milk since he opened it in 1972 and center of the neighborhood gay community. Note: Optic Nerve tapes 12, 13 and 38. Note on Tape 3: "Harvey Milk at Castro Camera - moving day. Financial and top of B of A." Source : 3 Tapes of 3: 3/4 inch videotape Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Call Number: PM0016985; PM0016986; PM0016695...
Topics: californialightandsound, Milk, Harvey
Description : Kodachrome home movie footage of Israel just before and after the Six Day War, shot by UC Berkeley alumnus Bernard Timberg in 1967. Source : 1 Reel of 1: Film: 16mm Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Rights : Copyrighted. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the digitized work online. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the...
Topics: californialightandsound, home movie
Description : Artist collective Optic Nerve documents author Anais Nin's visit to Berkeley, California, circa December 1971. Part 1 of 2: Anais Nin lecture at Zellerbach Auditorium, UC Berkeley, December 1971. Part 2 of 2: Optic Nerve interview with Anais Nin. Source : 2 Tapes of 2: 1/2 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Rights : Copyrighted. Rights are owned by Optic Nerve. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access...
Topic: californialightandsound
Description : Edited documentary on the New Games tournament, San Francisco, circa 1973, featuring co-founder Stewart Brand and Wavy Gravy. Additional pictures from this event can be found in The New Games Book . Call Number : PM0017730 Source : 1 Tape of 1: 1/2 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Rights: Rights are owned by TVTV. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the digitized work online. Transmission or...
Topics: californialightandsound, New Games (Firm), New Games Foundation
Additional Title : Erich Mendelsohn Description : Documentary exploring the life and work of painter and architect Erich Mendelson. Includes interviews with his wife, Luise Maas. Source : 1 Reel of 1: Film: 16mm Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Call Number : 1612-01-768 Rights : Copyrighted. Rights are owned by UC Regents. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the digitized work online. Transmission or reproduction of materials...
Topics: californialightandsound, Mendelsohn, Erich, 1887-1953, Rush, Paul, King, Susan, Mendelsohn, Luise,...
Description : This edited Kodachrome and black and white home movie documents "Senior Week" of the UC Berkeley Class of 1940 baccalaureate, during which the graduates engage in activities that take them to landmarks in Berkeley (Berkeley City Club, Claremont Hotel, Sproul House) and Santa Cruz (extensive images of the beach and boardwalk, including vintage amusement park rides). Source : 1 Reel of 1: Film: 16mm (original reversal) Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video...
Topics: californialightandsound, University of California, Berkeley--Students, University of California,...
Description : The 1965 Vietnam Day Peace March, remembered for the Hell's Angels' attack, is vividly depicted, providing a valuable historical perspective on the period, filmed by a partisan. Source : 1 Reel of 1: Film 16mm Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Rights: Rights are owned by UC Regents. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the digitized work online. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that...
Topics: Lipton, Leonard, Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--California--Berkeley,...
Description : Performance piece and interview of Kipper Kids relating to performance on October 18, 1979 at University Art Museum. Kipper Kids are painted in black makeup and wear nose and chin masks, with shower caps and jock straps. Pieces are humorous, playful and bizarre. One performance has one Kipper playing a guitar while both sing in an almost unintelligible "cockney" language. Another piece has Kippers making themselves into "cakes", with whipcream on their shower...
Topics: Kipper Kids, University Art Museum, Performance art, californialightandsound
Description : A film about the building of People's Park, and its ultimate destruction, marking the end of an era. Source : 1 Reel of 1: Film: 16mm Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Rights : Copyrighted. Rights are owned by UC Regents. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the digitized work online. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the...
Topics: californialightandsound, Lipton, Leonard, Demonstrations--California--Berkeley, History of...
Description : A melange of fascinating hippies animate Lipton's world in this provocative documentary kaleidoscope of Berkeley wit, defiance, insight, mania, obsession, and delusion ... a definite intimacy and spontaneity are maintained by the close, direct-eye-contact approach. The 'characters' stare unstintingly into the lens as they speak, and the effect is very much like standing toe-to-toe with someone during a conversation. This technique invests the film with a sense of familiar honesty...
Topics: Lipton, Leonard, Hippies--California, Counterculture, Youth culture, californialightandsound
Additional Title: Off the Pig Description: From the California Newsreel catalog: "This is the film the Black Panthers used to promote their cause. Shot in 1969, in Oakland, San Francisco and Sacramento, this exemplar of 1960s activist filmmaking traces the development of the Black Panther organization. In an interview from jail, Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton describes the origins of the Panther Party, Eldridge Cleaver explains the Panthers' appeal to the Black community, and...
Topic: californialightandsound
Additional Titles : [Golden Gate Expo 1939]; [San Francisco Expo 1939 Treasure Island] Source : 1 Reel of 1: Film: 8mm Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Rights: Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. This work is accessible for purposes of...
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Topics: californialightandsound, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive,...
Note : Video levels vary as on original recording; some sections are very dark. Program ends at 00:55:00 then unrelated content to end (audio only). Description : Documentation of eight events at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art revolving around Anna Halprin and the San Francisco Dancers' Workshop, including their first "Citydance" (1975-1976). Produced by First Generation (1974 -1980), a partnership between Dede Tisone Bartels, Betty Estersohn, and Joan Valdes, who were young...
Topic: californialightandsound
Description : A documentary of student attitudes and problems at San Francisco's Mission High School. Emphasizes their unhappiness with the segregation caused by the "tracking" system and with police harassment. Source : 1 Reel of 1: Film: 16mm Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Call Number: 1606-01-5625 Rights: Copyrighted. Rights are owned by California Newsreel. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the digitized work...
Topic: californialightandsound
Description : Documentation of the activities and fashions of the first Northern California Renaissance Pleasure Faire held at what is now known as China Camp State Park, San Rafael, 1968. Source : 1 Reel of 1: Film: 16mm Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Call Number : PM0028912 Rights : Copyrighted. Rights are owned by Judy Tooley. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the digitized work online. Transmission or reproduction of...
Topics: californialightandsound, Renaissance fairs, home movie
Note : Dropout throughout due to deterioration of original recording. Description : Documentary on Jasmine Nash, an affiliate of Anna Halprin who taught street dance to students from a wide variety of backgrounds in an upstairs dance studio in the Fillmore District of San Francisco in the 1970s. Produced by First Generation (1974 -1980), a partnership between Dede Tisone Bartels, Betty Estersohn, and Joan Valdes, who were young teachers and artists in the San Francisco Bay Area of the 1960s and...
Topic: californialightandsound
Description : Blacklisted filmmakers Abraham Polonsky and Alvah Bessie discuss Hollywood during the Cold War, the Hollywood Ten, and anti-communism with writer Nora Sayre and scholar Michael Rogin after a screening of the Cold War-era film "My Son John." Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Call Number : 4000-01-574; 4000-01-575 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its...
Topics: californialightandsound, Polonsky, Abraham, Sayre, Nora, Bessie, Alvah, Rogin, Michael, Hayes,...
Source: 2 Tapes of 2: 1/8 inch audio cassette
Description : Hollywood costume designer Walter Plunkett discusses working on the film "Singin' in the Rain," and Hollywood history in general, especially his work as a costume designer for RKO in the 1930's and MGM in the 1950s. He also discusses his time as a UC-Berkeley undergraduate. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-351 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17,...
Topics: californialightandsound, Costume design--United States--History--20th century, Motion...
Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette
Description : Filmmaker Stanley Donen and photographer Richard Avedon discuss the making of the film "Funny Face," (directed by Donen, with Avedon as "visual consultant,") as well as their collaboration together. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-363 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms...
Topics: californialightandsound, Motion picture producers and directors--United States,...
Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette
Description : On the scene documentation of California Governor Jerry Brown's visit to the Gray Whale Listening Station, an experimental installation along California's north coast, designed by Ant Farm, 1977. Source : 2 Tapes of 2: 3/4 inch videotape Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Call Number : PM0016605; PM0016606 Rights : Rights are owned by Ideas in Motion (Optic Nerve). Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the digitized work...
Topics: californialightandsound, Brown, Jerry, 1938-
Series Title : The Dilexi series Description : Commissioned work by Julian Beck and members of The Living Theatre (featuring Beck and Judith Malina, co-founders of The Living Theatre, in performance) for broadcast on KQED-TV, San Francisco. From Mugu Brainpan: Aired on KQED TV in 1969, the Dilexi Series represents a pioneering effort to present works created by artists specifically for broadcast. The 12-part weekly series was conceived and commissioned by the Dilexi Foundation, an off-shoot...
Topic: californialightandsound
Description : An hour-long documentary on Project One, a unique living/working community in a converted five-story warehouse in the South of Market district of San Francisco. This video documents the activities of Optic Nerve and other artists working within the collective space, sharing resources, new technologies, etc. Source : 1 Tape of 1: 1/2 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Rights : Copyrighted. Rights are owned by Optic Nerve....
Topics: californialightandsound, Optic Nerve
Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. This work is accessible for purposes of education and research. Transmission or reproduction of works protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in...
Topic: californialightandsound
Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette
Series Title : The Dilexi series Description : From Gene Youngblood's Expanded Cinema: San Francisco art dealer James Newman [transformed] his Dilexi Gallery into the Dilexi Foundation in December, 1968, with the purpose of "allowing more freedom for the artist, reaching a general audience and making art an organic part of day-to-day life." Newman was among the few gallery owners to recognize television's potential as the most influential gallery in the history of art. He engaged in...
Topic: californialightandsound
Description : Documentation of the artist Phil Harmonic, performing for the exhibition entitled Performance/art/artists/performers at the University of California, Berkeley, University Art Museum on July 17, 1975, organized by Carlos Gutierrez-Solana. This live performance is another in a continuing series of worldwide cultural events, prepared with the intention of helping to demystify the relationship between people and art and technology. It is a component part of the larger event entitled...
Topic: californialightandsound
Source : 1 Tape of 1: 1/2 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Call Number : PM0016706 Rights : Copyrighted. Rights are owned by Ideas in Motion (formerly Optic Nerve). Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the digitized work online. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owner. In addition, the...
Topics: californialightandsound, Optic Nerve
Note : Dropout throughout due to deterioration of original recording. Description : Documentary on Xavier Nash, an affiliate of Anna Halprin who taught street dance to students from a wide variety of backgrounds in an upstairs dance studio in the Fillmore District of San Francisco in the 1970s. Produced by First Generation (1974 -1980), a partnership between Dede Tisone Bartels, Betty Estersohn, and Joan Valdes, who were young teachers and artists in the San Francisco Bay Area of the 1960s and...
Topic: californialightandsound
Description : Part of an exhibition titled Performance/art/artists/performers at the University of California, Berkeley, University Art Museum, July 7 - September 4, 1975, organized by Carlos Gutierrez-Solana. Improvisation with each performer involved in individual activity. Source : 4 Tapes of 4: 1/2 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Accession Number : 0550-121-8997 Rights: Rights are owned by UC Regents. Copyright Holder has given...
Topics: Performance art, Women's Performing Collective, Christiansen, Muniera, Cory, Joya, Goodman, Wendy,...
Additional Title : The Sixties: What it was and what it wasn't Description : The artistic, cultural, and political moment of the Bay Area (and beyond) in the Sixties is discussed by key figures of the era, including R.G. Davis (founder of the San Francisco Mime Troupe), filmmaker Bruce Conner, filmmaker/distributor Peter Gessner (founder of Newsreel), and curator Tom Luddy. Topics include the link between politics, activism, and filmmaking;, the role of the artist in tackling politics; the Bay...
Topics: californialightandsound, Luddy, Tom, Davis, R.G., Gessner, Peter, Gitlin, Todd, Gorin, Jean-Pierre,...
Source: 8 Tapes of 8: 1/8 inch audio cassette
Description : Filmmaker Errol Morris introduces the premier of his film, "Gates of Heaven," about California pet cemeteries, and discusses his time as a UC-Berkeley grad student. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-273 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor...
Topics: californialightandsound, Motion picture producers and directors--California--San Francisco Bay...
Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette
Description : Part of an exhibition titled Performance/art/artists/performers at the University of California, Berkeley, University Art Museum, July 7 - September 4, 1975, organized by Carlos Gutierrez-Solana. Life mixing is a sound performance of language text mixed through synthesizer. Source : 1 Tape of 1: 1/2 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Accession Number : 0550-121-8995 Rights: Rights are owned by UC Regents. Copyright Holder has...
Topics: Gutierrez-Solana, Carlos, Williams, Reese, Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung, Borenstein, Maxine, Harker, Ed,...
Description : Most of the reel consists of aerial views of the University of California, Berkeley campus and buildings. Also included are several short scenes of an unidentified speaker at a gathering and students walking through Sather Gate. Source : 1 Reel of 1: Film: 16mm Call Number : 1604-01-3685 Rights : Copyrighted. Rights are owned by UC Regents. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the digitized work online. Transmission or reproduction of materials...
Topics: californialightandsound, University of California, Berkeley--Buildings
Description : Bay Area filmmaker/poet/educator/gay rights activist Marlon Riggs discusses his newest film, "Ethnic Notions," and images of African Americans in mass media throughout the years. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-894 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements,...
Topics: californialightandsound, Motion picture producers and directors--California--San Francisco Bay...
Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette
Description : Scenes of campus life including aerial overviews of the campus and shots of individual buildings including new construction; students and professors engaged in various outdoor activities and ceremonies including a sorority and fraternity parade with floats and a football game. Source : 1 Reel of 1: Film: 16mm Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Call Number: 1604-29-3667 Rights: Copyrighted. Rights are owned by UC Regents. Copyright Holder has given...
Topics: californialightandsound, University of California, Berkeley--Buildings, University of California,...
Source : 1 Reel of 1: Film: 16mm Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Call Number: PM0028938 Rights: Copyrighted. Rights are owned by Judy Tooley. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the digitized work online. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owner. In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of...
Topics: californialightandsound, Savio, Mario, Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.), home movie
Description : This film is about the oppression of the Third World community in the Mission district of San Francisco, specifically seven Latino youths who were recruiting street kids into a college Brown Studies Program. Accused of killing a plainclothesman, they became victims of a press and police campaign to "clean-up" the Mission. Their defense became the foundation of a revolutionary community organization called Los Siete. Source : 1 Reel of 1: Film: 16mm Collection : Pacific...
Topics: californialightandsound, San Francisco (Calif.)
Description : Video artist/filmmaker/poet/educator Marlon Riggs introduces his films "Tongues Untied" and "Affirmation," and discusses the films, homophobia, and representations of gay African Americans in mass culture. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-1022 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by...
Topics: californialightandsound, African American motion picture producers and directors--Interviews,...
Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette
Note : Video levels vary as on original recording; some sections are dark. Description : Baker/Rapoport/Wick was a collective of three performance artists - Mary Winder Baker, Debra Rapoport and Susan Wick. They came together to create remarkable textile-oriented performances and installations that inspired and expanded the definition of creativity in San Francisco. The location of this video was a window at Macy's in Union Square. The three female performance artists promoted the store's new...
Topics: californialightandsound, Performance art
Note: Content ends abruptly due to the end of the tape. Source : 1 Tape of 1: 1/2 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Call Number: PM0017743 Rights: Copyrighted. Rights are owned by TVTV. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the digitized work online. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owner. In...
Topic: californialightandsound
Description : Promotional film describing the University of California, Berkeley, its campus life, courses, teaching staff, extracurricular activities, sports and academic support facilities. University of California President Robert Gordon Sproul and University of California, Berkeley Chancellor Clark Kerr appear. Source : 1 Reel of 1: Film: 16mm Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Call Number: 1612-29-3693 Rights: Copyrighted. Rights are owned by UC Regents. Copyright...
Topics: californialightandsound, University of California, Berkeley
Description : Students, faculty, and staff guide prospective students to a University of California campus that best suits them. Source : 1 Reel of 1: Film: 16mm Call Number : 1612-29-12281 Rights : Copyrighted. Rights are owned by UC Regents. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the digitized work online. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owner. In...
Topics: californialightandsound, University of California (System), Documentaries and factual works
Note : Distortion and buzz is on the original tape. There is more than one minute of silence at the end of part 2. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-261 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. This work...
Topic: californialightandsound
Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette
Note : Image is a bit dark from 00:06:00 to 00:23:00 as on original recording. Description : Documentary on California photographer Marion Patterson, who studied under Minor White, Dorothea Lange, and Ansel Adams. A collection of her photographs titled Grains of Sand was published in 2002. Patterson's photographs focus on the natural surroundings of the central California coast, the Sierras, and the deserts of the Southwest. She describes her work as "photographs of the intimate landscape,...
Topics: californialightandsound, Photography--California
Description : Legendary filmmaker Douglas Sirk discusses working in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s, studio politics, film culture, and more. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Call Number : 4000-01-342 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and...
Topics: californialightandsound, Sirk, Douglas, 1897-1987--Interviews, Hollywood (Los Angeles,...
Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette
Note : Part 4 has a moment of silence between 5:20 and 6:20 (recorded in the original tape). Description : Wide-ranging discussion with filmmaker/activist Robert Kramer, made before he would leave the country permanently for exile in France. "Robert Kramer made an important distinction about his films: they were not about the Movement, they were of the Movement. Of their time, just as Kramer himself can be said to have been of his: radicalized by studying philosophy and Western history in...
Topics: californialightandsound, Motion pictures--political aspects--United States, Politics in motion...
Source: 4 Tapes of 4: 1/8 inch audio cassette
Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-541 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. This work is accessible for purposes of education and research. Transmission or reproduction of works protected by copyright...
Topic: californialightandsound
Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette
Description : Documentation of a performance piece by Kevin Costello presented at the University of California, Berkeley, University Art Museum, at the exhibition Performance/Art/Artists/Performers organized by Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, August 14, 1975. Source : 2 Tapes of 2: 1/2 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Accession Number : 0550-121-8901; 0550-121-8903 Rights : Copyrighted. Rights are owned by UC Regents. Copyright Holder has given...
Topic: californialightandsound
Description : Documentary on photographer, theorist, curator, and publisher Lew Thomas, who, with Donna-Lee Philips in San Francisco in 1976, founded NFS Press, which published and distributed landmark conceptual photography books through the 1970s and early 1980s. Produced by First Generation (1974 -1980), a partnership between Dede Tisone Bartels, Betty Estersohn, and Joan Valdes, who were young teachers and artists in the San Francisco Bay Area of the 1960s and 70s. It was a vibrant and...
Topic: californialightandsound
Source : 2 Tapes of 2: 1/2 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Rights: Copyrighted. Rights are owned by Ideas in Motion. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the digitized work online. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owner. In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms...
Topics: Banks, Dennis, American Indian Movement, Optic Nerve, californialightandsound
Description : Focus on alternate living experiments and accessible shelter materials. Home-made and hi-tech dome structures, inflatables, tipis, raps with owner-built homesteaders, building with waste materials, experimental playground constructions. Source : 1 Tape of 1: 1 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Rights: Copyrighted. Rights are owned by Media Access Center. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to...
Topic: californialightandsound
Source : 1 Tape of 1: 2 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Call Number : PM0016774 Rights : Copyrighted. Rights are owned by Ideas in Motion (formerly Optic Nerve). Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the digitized work online. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owner. In addition, the reproduction...
Topics: californialightandsound, Optic Nerve
Description : Introduced by film historian William K. Everson, filmmaker Joseph H. Lewis reminisces on Hollywood in the 1940s, specific films like GUN CRAZY, SO DARK THE NIGHT, and MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS, and working in and on poverty-row film productions. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Number : 4000-01-487; 4000-01-488; 4000-01-489 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In...
Topics: californialightandsound, Motion picture producers and directors--California--Los Angeles, Motion...
Source: 3 Tapes of 3: 1/8 inch audio cassette
Note : There are four minutes of silence at the end of the recording. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-266 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. This work is accessible for purposes of education and...
Topic: californialightandsound
Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette
Note : Program ends at 00:31:00. Description : Groundbreaking video collective TVTV covers the 1974 California election with behind-the-scenes footage of Mervyn M. Dymally, who was elected as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of California, the first of Trinidadian descent to do so. Note on original container : "Sacto 1 test plus - Black Fox Trot" Call Number : PM0017736 Source : 1 Tape of 1: 1/2 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Rights : Copyrighted. Rights are owned by TVTV. Copyright Holder...
Topics: californialightandsound, California--Politics and government, Elections--United States
Description : Blacklisted Hollywood filmmaker Abraham Polonsky discusses the making of his film "Force of Evil" and the Hollywood blacklist. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-2419 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights,...
Topics: californialightandsound, Motion picture producers and directors--California--Los Angeles, Motion...
Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette
Note : Audio only (no image) from 00:02:28 - 00:05:19, and for about 20 seconds at 00:22:00. Description : Groundbreaking video collective TVTV covers the 1974 California election with behind-the-scenes footage of Jerry Brown, who was elected to his first term as the 34th Governor of California. Call Number : PM0017756 Source : 1 Tape of 1: 1/2 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Rights : Copyrighted. Rights are owned by TVTV. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the...
Topics: californialightandsound, California--Politics and government, Elections--United States
Description : The Bay Area experimental/found-footage filmmaker/photographer Bruce Conner is feted on the occasion of his birthday, which also overlaps with the anniversaries of other historic events related to his film, "Television Assassination:" the assassinations of Robert and John F. Kennedy. He discusses those events, his filmmaking aesthetic, and his use of music in film, among other topics. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Call Number :...
Topics: californialightandsound, Conner, Bruce
Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette
Description : Documentation of a performance piece by John Gillen included in the exhibition Performance/Art/Artists/Performers held at the University of California, Berkeley, University Art Museum, August 19, 1975, organized by Carlos Gutierrez-Solana. Source : 1 Tape of 1: 1/2 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Accession Number : 0550-121-8922 Rights : Copyrighted. Rights are owned by UC Regents. Copyright Holder has given Institution...
Topic: californialightandsound
Description : Documentation of the artist Jani Novak, performing for the exhibition titled Performance/art/artists/performers at the University of California, Berkeley, University Art Museum on July 8, 1975, organized by Carlos Gutierrez-Solana. Source : 4 Tapes of 4: 1/2 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Accession Number : 0550-121-8965 Rights : Copyrighted. Rights are owned by UC Regents. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission...
Topic: californialightandsound
Description : Performance piece performed by Darryl Sapien and Michael Hinton at the University Art Museum, Berkeley, California on August 26, 1975, as part of the exhibition entitled Performance/art/artists/performers, organized by Carlos Gutierrez-Solana. Darryl Sapien and Michael Hinton, in construction worker outfits, heavy boots, helmets and goggles, were strapped to a 34 foot telephone pole and worked their way down in an hour and a half, slowly splitting the pole as they descended by...
Topic: californialightandsound
Additional Title : Psychological bull rider Description : A documentary on rodeo cowboys. Source : 1 Tape of 1: 1 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Call Number : PM0016659 Rights : Copyrighted. Rights are owned by Ideas in Motion. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the digitized work online. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the...
Topics: Rodeos--California, Documentary, Optic Nerve, californialightandsound
Note : Recording ends abruptly. Description : Richard (Dick) Raymond was the President of the Portola Institute, the umbrella organization for The Whole Earth Catalog and other Stewart Brand projects. Source : 1 Tape of 1: 1/2 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Call Number : PM0017755 Rights : Copyrighted. Rights are owned by TVTV. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the digitized work online. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond...
Topic: californialightandsound
Source : 1 Tape of 1: 1/2 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Call Number: PM0017613 Rights: Copyrighted. Rights are owned by TVTV. Copyright Holder has given Institution permission to provide access to the digitized work online. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owner. In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be...
Topic: californialightandsound
Note: Content begins at 01:20. Description : Documentary produced by Bay Area video collective Optic Nerve circa 1976 on the San Francisco County jail system. Through candid interviews with inmates and a former jail doctor, the video argues that most of the inmates are there simply for the "crime" of being poor and that the prison system offers no opportunities for rehabilitation and merely serves to keep them down. Source : 1 Tape of 1: 1 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Collection :...
Topics: californialightandsound, Prisons--California
Description : Legendary Hollywood director André de Toth discusses b-movie productions in Hollywood in the 1940s, genre filmmaking, and specific films such as DARK WATERS, PITFALL, and HOUSE OF WAX. Introduced and moderated by film historian Anthony Slide. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-692; 4000-01-693 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its...
Topics: californialightandsound, Motion picture producers and directors--California--Los Angeles, Motion...
Source: 2 Tapes of 2: 1/8 inch audio cassette
Alternate Title : Unfolding performance string Description : Part of an exhibition titled Performance/art/artists/performers at the University of California, Berkeley, University Art Museum, July 7 - September 4, 1975, organized by Carlos Gutierrez-Solana. Morrison made a group of objects, like those in a medicine man's kit, around which he built performances. Source : 2 Tapes of 2: 1/2 inch videotape: reel-to-reel Collection : Pacific Film Archive Film and Video Collection Accession Number :...
Topics: Performance art, Gutierrez-Solana, Carlos, Morrison, Bill, californialightandsound
Description : This reel from the estate of Marshall Dill, Sr., former president of the Golden Gate International Exposition (1940) amongst other civic posts held in San Francisco throughout his life, contains footage of Paul and Kitty's 15th anniversary at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Moffitt in Woodside, California, June 3-4, 1927, as well as footage of a church party for Father Kavanaugh at the Jackling home, 1928. Source : 1 Reel of 1: Film: 16mm (original reversal) Collection : Pacific...
Topics: californialightandsound, home movie
Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. This work is accessible for purposes of education and research. Transmission or reproduction of works protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in...
Topic: californialightandsound
Source: 1 Tape of 1: 1/8 inch audio cassette
Description : Los Angeles author/academic/cultural critic Mike Davis leads a panel discussion on imagery of the destruction of Los Angeles in mass media, as well as the Southland's architecture, cultural geography, political and racial turmoil, and mythopoeic presence. Collection Guide : Pacific Film Archive Audio Recordings Collection Accession Numbers : 4000-01-2503; 4000-01-2504 Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In...
Topics: californialightandsound, Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions, Davis, Mike, 1946-, Los Angeles...
Source: 2 Tapes of 2: 1/8 inch audio cassette
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